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Mark Kelly has more money in his Senate election war chest than Joe Biden does running for president. The former astronaut, gun control activist and husband of Gabrielle Giffords has established a veritable cash gusher in Arizona, raising nearly $14 million this year, including $5.6 million in the last three …

Families are complicated, their private tensions and political disagreements often kept under wraps. That’s not the case with Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.), whose opponent in the midterm election just got a boost from Gosar’s siblings. Six of them. The brothers and sisters — Tim, Jennifer, Gaston, Joan, Grace and …

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey wants her approval heading into a tough gubernatorial election. Arizona Sen. John McCain’s widow Cindy hasn’t expressed any desire to serve out her late husband’s term in Washington — but she will wield immense influence over the selection of his replacement. More than a dozen McCain …

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey will appoint a replacement, followed by a special election in 2020. PHOENIX — Sen. John McCain held his seat in the Senate for nearly 32 years. After McCain’s death Saturday, it will fall to Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey to name his successor. State law gives Ducey, …

Appealing to the Republican base in Tuesday’s primary could alienate voters who decide the general election just 10 weeks later. Democrats see their best shot in the state in decades. When Donald Trump ran for president, he didn’t exactly wow Arizona. He carried the state with less than 50% support, …

Thousands march to the Arizona Capitol for higher teacher pay and school funding on the first day of a state-wide teacher strike Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) PHOENIX (AP) — Teachers in Arizona and Colorado turned their state Capitols into a sea of red Thursday …

Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was ousted from office in 2016 in large part to turnout from Latino voters in Arizona. Arpaio, who pledged complete allegiance to President Trump, announced his candidacy for Senate, and Latinos in Arizona are energized to make sure he’s not elected. Yenni Sanchez had …

Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who last year was pardoned by President Trump in a case stemming from his immigration enforcement tactics, announced Tuesday he will run for the open Senate seat in his home state. It had seemed as if Joe Arpaio’s political career was over. In November 2016, …

LGBTQ leaders in Arizona have seen their biggest cities grow more welcoming toward the LGBTQ community. They hope that shift will help lead to acceptance across the state. When Maddie Adelman moved to Phoenix in the late 1990s, she struggled to build a community. “It was hard to find my …

Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, an ardent critic of President Trump, announced Tuesday that he will not run for re-election in 2018. Flake, a Republican, was arguably the most vulnerable senator of either party who was up for re-election next year because he was almost certain to face strong challenges from both the right (in …

Americans inclined to pay attention to these sorts of things have engaged in some distinctly Calvinist political thinking of late: that the Senate map for 2018 is predestined to stay Republican. The GOP currently controls 52 seats to the Democrats’ 48 (including two independents who caucus with the Democrats). The Democrats would need to …

× FILE – In this Jan. 26, 2016 file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. PHOENIX (AP) — Donald Trump was just a few weeks into his candidacy in 2015 when he came …